Masada

Name: Masada
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure
Released: 1981-04-05
Rating: 7.04
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Alan Feinstein, Giulia Pagano

7.0

62 reviews

Information

Creator:Joel Oliansky

Year:1981 - 1981

Genre:Drama, Action & Adventure

Popularity:3

Duration:120 min/ep

IMDb:View on IMDb

Seasons:1 (4 eps)

Cast

Peter O'ToolePeter StraussBarbara CarreraAlan FeinsteinGiulia PaganoAnthony QuaylePaul L. Smith

Overview

Masada is a 1981 American historical drama television miniseries aired on ABC under the tentpole ABC Novel for Television. The screenplay by Joel Oliansky is based on Ernest Gann's 1971 novel The Antagonists. A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.